The Blue Hour: A Novel

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A taut, slow-burning thriller." -Boston Globe

"Truly exceptional." Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods

Welcome to Eris: a remote Scottish island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.

Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago in a baffling cold case.

Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.

But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling.

And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge....

A masterful psychological thriller that is as page-turning as it is unsettling, The Blue Hour recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith and cements Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced and stylish storytellers.

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Published Oct 29, 2024

320 pages

Average rating: 5.82

34 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

Sara0719
Dec 12, 2025
6/10 stars
The writing style reflects journalism and is difficult to follow at times. Its lacks emotion and there’s not a lot of depth to the characters
BookListLinda
Feb 14, 2026
6/10 stars
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Paula Hawkins is always phenomenal, and if you liked "The Girl on the Train," you'll want to read this one. The ending did disappoint me, it wasn't what I wanted to have happen.
anne ducastel
Jan 08, 2026
2/10 stars
that bone sounded so promising though....
Dahlface
Jul 01, 2025
6/10 stars
I was so excited to read this book knowing it takes place in the world of Art and also knowing I love a good suspenseful page turner. Sadly, I was disappointed. I kept waiting for the book to get going - for there to be momentum and drive in the plot and character development, but it never seemed to get going. At the end, I felt underwhelmed and unsatisfied. Not her best work.

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